The Internet often feels “current” and “modern.” Afterall, our lives are so entwined with the the internet, and there are still many, many people alive today who can speak to its evolution and development (and even a time before its existence). Yet, we are somewhere in the fourth to the sixth decade of having this … Read More “Archiving, Drugs, and Webpages: Using the Wayback Machine to Document Psychoactives Online” »
What if I told you, “when a large number of similar entities interact among each other and with their environment at a low scale, unexpected outcomes at higher spatio-temporal scales might spontaneously arise?” I would, personally, be a little confused. Yet, in this succinct, albeit perplexing, explanation, Oriol Artime and Manilo De Domenico describe the concept of emergence. … Read More “Transcribing from the Crowd” »
What comes to mind when you think about the Appalachian Mountains? Something like this? These are the Blue Ridge Mountains, an Appalachian subrange. Photo courtesy of Our State. Or, maybe you would think about something like this: the Allegheny Plateau. Photo courtesy of bplant.org. Yet, I doubt that your image looks like this: The photo … Read More “Molding the Mountains: Using Maps and GIFs with JuxtaposeJS to look at “Appalachian Mississippi”” »
It Goes Like This: (The First, the Sixth) The Fourth, The Fifth Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” along with song’s numerous covers, convey the awesome majesty in the interplay of the structural and metaphysical aspects of music. Often lost in the song’s beautiful and haunting lyrics are instructions for creating simple yet powerful music: “it goes like … Read More “Mixtape Blog: The I-vi-IV-V Progression Through Time” »
